internet life, very much work omg

wow, so it's been a few days since i've posted anything on hive. i haven't posted much anywhere the past few days. except for on a bunch of new platforms that i feel like i needed to sign up to try to gain enough traction to maybe one day make a living creating content online. i knew it wasn't an easy thing to do, certainly not for someone who does not have a lot of money or connections, or i would have tried it a long time ago!

today (well, it's technically tomorrow now) marked 2 months since i started this strange journey. i probably went over it in my intro post, but i started over on another social media blockchain, DeSo.
turns out i accidentally trolled some people overnight, so i wrote a little apology message, but i had also been planning on posting something about it being my 2 month month-iversary. the image i made shows my little account age badge and i wanted to animate the founder of that blockchain in a creepy way coming out of the image. after i did that, i thought, hm, well he could be offering me a cake. so that it would appear creepy but then like, "oh don't worry i was friendly this cake proves it." and since i was apologizing for people believing a joke i had made, i decided to have the image have this ambiguous message where it says "I GOT YOU" and then "A CAKE" at the end, but in my head the idea is people might wonder if i meant that "i got them" with my joke. i have no need to clarify what i meant because the ambiguity is supposed to be another little joke. am i a little strange? probably.

of course the image is not anything special, i was in a hurry to get it finished since i really did want to write an apology message :) (mainly because i just didn't want more silly people to believe a joke comment and repeat it as if it were news, i didn't care that they made themselves look silly, but i didn't want anyone to think my intent was to have that happen~)

so okay, 2 months of doing this "content creator" thing.

i do have "nsfw" content which maybe some people would think "oh that probably makes things a lot easier cause people love that stuff." and, maybe, if i just posted my content for free it would probably get a lot of views. it might serve me well doing it in the nsfw area on hive. but i really have enjoyed that thus far what i have earned from doing things online has not really come from my nsfw content. it's tricky, though, because it certainly could be that many people have supported me in some part because i have that content. i don't really know, but i do know that i really love making my normal content, and a lot of it makes me laugh hysterically so i would like to think it hasn't been because i have been naked on the internet before.😅

anyway even though i love doing normal content, it would be (imo) stupid to ignore all of the content that i have that i own and can do what i want with. if i do nothing with it, i earn nothing from it, and if i endured all the time spent camming, why not try to continue to earn from it?

but forgetting the fact that maybe it could be easier to earn by posting to hive (and - i think i will start trying it, i would only be posting images and not videos - i've done it already but only with mostly edited images; can't hurt to just see how it goes) - it is super hard to try to make any money from all of these various nsfw sites. i mean sites like onlyfans, fansly, manyvids, pornhub, etc. ofc there are people who do very well, but i am sure for a normal person like me who tries to do it, it is very daunting. i have gotten a subscription here and there, i've had a few videos sell on manyvids, but- i'm certainly no where near any point of being able to cash out any of that.

i would love to find out if there is a community here on hive for nsfw creators. and i don't mean where people post nsfw content. i mean just for us to talk about the work itself, certainly there's plenty to vent about too, but also just strategies in general. but the venting would prob be a lot of fun and good for people too lol. i can't tell you how many times someone messages me out of the blue, they found me on (insert any normal site where i don't actually have nsfw content), "suddenly" they discover that i have nsfw content after writing me, i send them a link to one of my paid sites, and they end up asking if i can just send them content either "because i love your normal content and i wonder if your other content is similar" or "because i'd be happy to give you feedback and advice" LOL. so it goes from being what i thought was a nice person who liked my normal content to just someone wanting to see me naked and not have to pay for the content. i have to wonder if the tactic works on anyone? just seems so weird. i don't sell the content because i just love for it to be available for people.🤣

the very first attempt i ever made of doing any kind of animation in photoshop, though this was more about attempting to mix existing animations with other images. clearly it has problems because the background image keeps moving but it was just an attempt! the only animation i really did was to make my cross glow over the frames. obviously the background image is from the movie Ghostbusters.

so i probably should get to sleep soon, i just wanted to write a little blog post. i intended to maybe detail all of the stuff i did, but i tend to ramble. i hope the things i tagged this with are cool but i am sure i will find out if there were problems. i would guess if they're not the right fit i simply wouldn't get positive votes in those areas, and i would just take note of that, but i did ofc peruse everywhere before making choices (but i guess i didn't necessarily take note myself how other posts that seemed like they are similar to this one did in terms of votes lol).

things that i'm currently working on and what i'd like to do next:

• still working on my website, i haven't been able to devote much time to it this week unfortunately
• post about my NFT that's going into space here on hive because i'm really excited about it
• create some new art since i've mostly been making memes and i would like to get back to normal stuff
• finish setting up my profiles at other off-chain platforms that are geared towards nsfw content OR where i'm just hoping to expand my "social reach" in order to promote my blockchain profiles here and over on DeSo (i would like to see any blockchain social media platforms succeed, seems it's in everyone's best interests)

i never feel like there's enough time in the day!

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